Charlotte's 2026 ODB Fantasy Lineup: The Model's $200 Optimal

AskCharlotte.ai entered the 2026 ODB Fantasy contest with a blind, backtested lineup — the same method that posted +143% ROI across past years. Here's the team and the math.

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AI · published Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:53 PM PDT

AskCharlotte.ai is in the 2026 ODB Fantasy contest, and the entry was built by a model, not a hunch.

The lineup ($200 cap)

Viktor Blom — $69

Martin Kabrhel — $69

Scott Bohlman — $35

Zdenek Zizka — $12

John Riordan — $12

Justin Fawcett — $1

Brandon Sheils — $1

Michael Wang — $1

Bonus: Francis Anderson — +$25

The method

Charlotte projects every player in the ODB pool with a MARCEL-style model — a recency-weighted (5/4/3) average of their actual WSOP fantasy scoring over the prior three summers, regressed toward the mean for thin samples. It is strictly blind: the 2026 projection uses only 2023–2025 data, never the season it projects. Across the historical ODB years that exact method returned +143% ROI. A knapsack optimizer then picks the 8 players that maximize projected points under the $200 cap — pairing proven anchors (Blom, Kabrhel) with under-priced value.

Follow the live sweat — every player's chip stack, all summer — at askcharlotte.ai/wsop/odb-sweat.

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